Last month, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came to Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge to watch Gov. Jeff Landry ...

There has been widespread concern expressed over the impact Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" could have on American health care.

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest flood event in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The storm crashed into the Gulf Coast and ...

Washington is an emeritus member of the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Alumni ...

The FDA will remove “ingestible fluoride prescription drug products” or supplements for children from the market effective ...

More than half of the proposed federal savings — about $427 billion — would come from states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, including Louisiana.

SWLA, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana has had its first confirmed human case of the West Nile Virus this year. We don’t know much ...

But studies in the United States and Canada, which legalized nonmedical cannabis use for adults nationally in 2018, show climbing rates of cannabis-related health care use among older people, both ...

Senate Bill 96, authored by Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington, would require the Louisiana Department of Health to reimburse providers for partial hospitalization services — an outpatient level ...

Health officials in Louisiana said Monday that an individual has died from the H5N1 bird flu. The death is the first reported among humans in the United States related to the virus.

Glenmora, Louisiana residents Belinda Smith (left) and Charles Ward (right) talk with Gulf States Newsroom reporter Drew Hawkins about the impact federal cuts to Medicaid would have on them.